Problems in Heterogeneous Knowledge Source Integration: TraumaGEN and the Metathesaurus
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This paper reports on some of the difficulties inherent in the integration of information from heterogeneous knowledge sources (KSs). It reviews the approaches and limitations of some recent systems, and presents example problems from an attempt to integrate two KSs in the medical terminology domain.
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طرح ادغام سرشاخه خوشه طب سنتی ایران در ساختار ابَراصطلاحنامه « نظام زبان واحد پزشکی (UMLS)»
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